fisherman
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Stay for ’90s heartthrob Josh Hartnett, who stars as a grizzled fisherman whose town is beset by a sea monster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
"We've really had enough," protesting fisherman Tony Dalmasso told AFP in Nice.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
“If you’re a windsurfer or fisherman or boater—basically, someone who cares about weather in specific locations—there’ve been good apps out there for a while now,” he said.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
One fifth-generation coracle fisherman described the situation in Carmarthenshire as "dire" after only catching one fish in the three-month season between May and July.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
If they were lucky, they could crowd onto an American boat or barge, or pay gold to get a fisherman to take them out to where the big ships waited.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
She encountered beaches typically teeming with tourists that were spookily empty, and fishermen unable to work because they lacked gasoline to go to sea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
It is a mosaic of subcultures: fishermen in coastal towns, hipsters in Portland, hippies in Eugene, hikers in Bend, farmers in the Willamette Valley, loggers in timber towns and cowboys in Eastern Oregon’s high desert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The shark made a few circles, leaving fishermen on the pier stunned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The search for the missing fishermen involved UK and French rescue teams in waters south-west of the Eddystone Lighthouse, off Plymouth.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
In the Standing Fishes Bible, the fishermen must have looked on in such surprise when “the fish stood on the shore all the way from Engedi to Eneglaim.”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
